LaPierre's armed guards would make schools more attractive targets (Letter to the Editor)

It seems apparent to me that virtually every mentally deranged
assault-weapon-wielder who has chosen a school, college, mall, or other public
venue as the stage for the massacre he planned, has recognized that he was to be the centerpiece of the planned
drama that he would ultimately attract, and would merit the attention he
needed, by going out in a blaze of "glory," whether as a
suicide, or at the hand of another.

Mr. LaPierre, the rock (no emotions) and the grand Pooh-Bah of the NRA, chooses to ignore the significance
of this fact. To the killer, the armed guard or policeman
that LaPierre would add is simply another aide on the road to glory—or perhaps
another dead body.

Were there not guards at Virginia Tech,
at the Oregon Mall, at the University of Texas
these many years ago?

Among Mr. LaPierre's other failures of comprehension is that the shooting
starts first, and then the police are alerted.